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Publication details [#5903]

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1974. What you can do with words: Politeness, pragmatics and performatives. Berkeley studies in Syntax and Semantics 1 (16) : 1–55.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative competence | context dependence | dialect1 | hesitation | performative | politeness

Annotation

L. suggests that there are fuzzy pragmatic rules: rules of pragmatic competence, rules of politeness, rules of conversation are applicable to different degrees in different contexts and they interact in varied ways; the distinction between real and conventional politeness, hesitancy, etc. also occurs in degrees; there are dialectal differences in the rules of politeness.

Reprints

Rogers, Andy, Bob Wall and John P. Murphy. 1977. In Rogers, Andy, Bob Wall and John P. Murphy, eds. Proceedings of the Texas conference on performatives, presuppositions and implicatures. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 79–105.